Word: size
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average hat size is 7⅛. Among average size takers are Calvin Coolidge and Al Jolson. John D. Rockefeller Sr. wears a 7½ John D. Rockefeller Jr. a 7⅜. The largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...
...skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid in size only. It sells for 10 cents per copy...
Local unions determine the number of men to constitute a theatre orchestra according to the size and type of the house. The cost of maintaining even so small an ensemble as 15 men at the average wage of $60 per week is $46,800 a year, exclusive of a conductor. The cost of installing a sound apparatus, according to the latest figures from Radio Corp. of America, is from $13,500 to $15,500 for a house seating 2,500 to 3,500; $9.000 for a theatre with a capacity of 750 to 1,250. Even plus the price...
...Corp., last week called on President Hoover to ask whether the U. S. would look with favor on granting a contract to carry mail by Zeppelin from California to Honolulu. Evidently the President's reply was favorable, for Mr. Litchfield announced plans for constructing two giant dirigibles twice the size of (he Graf Zeppelin. The two ships, sisters of the two huge ships which Goodyear is constructing for the U. S. Navy, are to use helium as their supporting gas, will have engines and cabins enclosed in the hulls, will cost about five million dollars each. The first...
...great increase in the size of the University has not been allowed to bring with it the standardization of production which has so often accompanied rapid development in the United States. The three hundred year old liberal tradition of which Harvard is so justly proud, has never been more carefully fostered than during President Lowell's administration. Undergraduate papers have been indiscreet, members of the faculty have outraged bands of zealous alumni, but President Lowell has defended them to the utmost no matter how out of sympathy he may have been with the opinions expressed. His own vigorously independent nature...